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First off, I love this tea too. Second, I too find myself to be super-sensitive to caffeine. Last week I had a chai tea at a coffee shop at 2PM and subsequently stayed awake until around 4AM. I couldn’t figure out why I wasn’t sleeping, and then it hit me. I know they’ve done studies that say caffeine supposedly leaves your body in like 6 hours or something, but that just cannot be true.

The “white teas have less caffeine” myth has actually been debunked; there’s a good description of the study here http://www.elmwoodinn.com/about/caffeine.html It only addresses how much caffeine gets into the cup, not how it’s absorbed by your body, but it’s pretty well done and informative. Erin, I couldn’t find much (that was readable) on metabolizing caffeine (so if you find that study do tell :) but it does seem like it varies a lot from person to person?

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First off, I love this tea too. Second, I too find myself to be super-sensitive to caffeine. Last week I had a chai tea at a coffee shop at 2PM and subsequently stayed awake until around 4AM. I couldn’t figure out why I wasn’t sleeping, and then it hit me. I know they’ve done studies that say caffeine supposedly leaves your body in like 6 hours or something, but that just cannot be true.

The “white teas have less caffeine” myth has actually been debunked; there’s a good description of the study here http://www.elmwoodinn.com/about/caffeine.html It only addresses how much caffeine gets into the cup, not how it’s absorbed by your body, but it’s pretty well done and informative. Erin, I couldn’t find much (that was readable) on metabolizing caffeine (so if you find that study do tell :) but it does seem like it varies a lot from person to person?